Unit 1 - Not According to Plan (Fiction) The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allen Poe, adapted by Sue Ellis Cinder Edna - Ellen Jackson The No-Guitar Blues - Gary Soto
Unit 2 - Courage Counts (Nonfiction) A Slave - Virginia Hamilton Wilma Mankiller - Linda Lowery Cesar Chavez: Civil-Rights Champion - Nancy Lobb Roberto Clemente: Hero and Friend - Irma Zepeda
Unit 5 - Special Places (Poetry) Dust of Snow - Robert Frost Elevator - Lucille Clifton Haiku - Issa Happy Thought - Jesus Papoleto Melendez Daybreak in Alabama - Langston Hughes Graffiti - Jane Yolen
Unit 6 - The Battle Is On - (Mixed Genres) High as Han Hsin - Arthur Bowie Chrisman For Want of a Horseshoe Nail - adapted from James Baldwin Shot Down Behind Enemy Lines - Don L. Wulffson Fa Mulan - Robert D. Lan Louci
Unit 7 - Decisions Don't Come Easily (Fiction) Two Were Left - Hugh B. Cave
Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust - Eve Bunting The Lady or the Tiger? - Frank L. Stockton, retold by Sue Baugh
Unit 8 - Hard to Believe (Nonfiction) Ships That Could Think - Edward F. Dolan Earthquakes - Franklyn M. Branley Sparky - Earl Nightingale The Roswell Incident - Phillip Brooks
The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allen Poe, adapted by Sue Ellis
Cinder Edna - Ellen Jackson
The No-Guitar Blues - Gary Soto
Unit 2 - Courage Counts (Nonfiction)
A Slave - Virginia Hamilton
Wilma Mankiller - Linda Lowery
Cesar Chavez: Civil-Rights Champion - Nancy Lobb
Roberto Clemente: Hero and Friend - Irma Zepeda
Unit 3 - We Are Family (Mixed Genres)
Trombones and Colleges - Walter Dean Myers
Trombones and Colleges WB
In a Neighborhood in Los Angeles - Francisco X. Alacon
In a neighborhood in Los Angeles
Mudslinging - Jennifer Owings Dewey
Mudslining WB
Another April - Jesse Stuart
On Aging - Maya Angelou
Unit 4 - Who's in Charge (Drama)
The Telephone - John Murry
The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain, adopted by Joellen Bland
Unit 5 - Special Places (Poetry)
Dust of Snow - Robert Frost
Elevator - Lucille Clifton
Haiku - Issa
Happy Thought - Jesus Papoleto Melendez
Daybreak in Alabama - Langston Hughes
Graffiti - Jane Yolen
Unit 6 - The Battle Is On - (Mixed Genres)
High as Han Hsin - Arthur Bowie Chrisman
For Want of a Horseshoe Nail - adapted from James Baldwin
Shot Down Behind Enemy Lines - Don L. Wulffson
Fa Mulan - Robert D. Lan Louci
Unit 7 - Decisions Don't Come Easily (Fiction)
Two Were Left - Hugh B. Cave
Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust - Eve Bunting
The Lady or the Tiger? - Frank L. Stockton, retold by Sue Baugh
Unit 8 - Hard to Believe (Nonfiction)
Ships That Could Think - Edward F. Dolan
Earthquakes - Franklyn M. Branley
Sparky - Earl Nightingale
The Roswell Incident - Phillip Brooks